Word: originate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three "no's" to these questions impress me as the most rock-headed set of answers the Committee of Education has offered to date. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of my friends, History 1 has proven the most important single course in Harvard College. The origin and growth of every modern European nation not important? Falderol...
...certain of the exact date of their beginning, the Gardens were already highly developed in the nineties. There professor Gray did research work for Charles Darwin, sending the results across the ocean to the author, who used them in developing his theories. In gratitude Darwin forwarded the proofs of "Origin of the Species" to Gray long before the book went to press...
...Number Eleven, pictured in the Art section of TIME [Feb. 7], interpreted by Sam Hunter of the New York Times as "cathartic disintegration," is nothing of the sort. Any biologist will tell him that Mr. Pollock made a subconscious endeavor to paint a jumble of spermatozoa, probably of bovine origin. He must have seen these animalcules under the microscope or in a picture at one time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been any disintegration, it has been...
...Haagen-Smit did his laborious job for the Hawaiian pineapple growers, who believe that they can grow and market better pineapples if they know the chemical origin of the fruit's admired flavor. But Dr. Haagen-Smit's main interest is to find out what flavor really...
Frozen Up. Symphony President Reichhold was confident that he had most of the musicians and concertgoers behind him. In origin and implication, he maintained, the dissensions were "entirely political and in no sense musical." Whatever their implication, the dissensions continued. The Detroit local of the American Federation of Musicians disbanded the musicians' committee that had been dealing with the symphony management. Reichhold posted notice that the orchestra's 28-concert spring tour...